Comments on: eMusic goes European and increases prices for European customers http://www.sonicwalker.com/2006/08/12/emusic-goes-european-and-increases-prices-for-european-customers/ international dj-mix netlabel with free mp3 downloads Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:35:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Harald Walker http://www.sonicwalker.com/2006/08/12/emusic-goes-european-and-increases-prices-for-european-customers/#comment-714 Harald Walker Sun, 13 Aug 2006 12:30:52 +0000 http://www.sonicwalker.com/2006/08/12/emusic-goes-european-and-increases-prices-for-european-customers/#comment-714 eMusic has reacted to some of the criticism (via <a href="http://www.emusic.com/messageboard/TopicBrowse.html" rel="nofollow">eMusic message board</a>): <blockquote>As you know, we recently launched local European versions of our service. The main benefit in doing this was to make available literally hundreds of thousands of tracks to European customers that we could not (and still cannot) make available from our US site, due to territorial licensing restrictions placed on us by the music owners. The costs of selling music in Europe are higher than in the US, and by launching European sites, we must adhere to national and international laws requiring VAT collection and compensate the various labels, publishers, and artists under the terms they require. As a result of this reality, we were required to make various price adjustments.</blockquote> eMusic has reacted to some of the criticism (via eMusic message board):

As you know, we recently launched local European versions of our service. The main benefit in doing this was to make available literally hundreds of thousands of tracks to European customers that we could not (and still cannot) make available from our US site, due to territorial licensing restrictions placed on us by the music owners. The costs of selling music in Europe are higher than in the US, and by launching European sites, we must adhere to national and international laws requiring VAT collection and compensate the various labels, publishers, and artists under the terms they require. As a result of this reality, we were required to make various price adjustments.

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